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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xi. 20 Therfore ȝou comynge to gidere into oon, now it is not for to ete the Lordis sopere [L. Dominicam cenam].

1533 W. Tyndale (title) The supper of the Lorde After the true meanyng of the Sixte of Iohn and the .xi of the fyrst Epistle to the Corhinthians.

1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) f. cxxj (heading) The Svpper of the Lorde, and the holy Communion, commonly called the Masse.

1553 Articles agreed on by Bishoppes 1552 xxix The Sacramente of the Lordes supper [L. Sacramentum Eucharistiae].

1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. i. f. cccclii^v S. Ihon Chrisostom..hath these wordes. Forasmuch as it is the dominical supper, y^t is to say, the lords, it ought to be common.

1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iv. ii. 197 The Lords Supper, ordained by our Saviour to conjoyn our Affections, hath disjoyned our Judgements.

1686 J. Bunyan Bk. for Boys & Girls xiv. 17 Two Sacraments I do believe there be, Baptism and the Supper of the Lord: Both Mysteries divine, which do to me, By Gods appointment, benefit afford.

1718 S. Adams Plain & Full Instr. of Princ. & Doctr. Christian Relig. 106 My Thoughts must not rest on that Outward Part, but by Faith be carried to the Things signified, to those Inward and Spiritual Graces which are annexed to them by Christ Himself; the New Birth in Baptism; the Body and Blood of Christ in the Lord's Supper.

1764 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. (1833) i. iv. §7. 36/2 Of the bread and wine presented in these offerings, such a quantity was separated from the rest as was required in the administration of the Lord's supper.

1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (ed. 2) II. 281 If the Dominical Supper be a feast upon a sacrifice.

1852 Evergreen Nov. 342/2 If, because of unworthiness, we must abstain from the Supper of the Lamb on earth, how hardly can we hope for admission to that in heaven!

1878 T. L. Cuyler Pointed Papers 148 The Lord's Supper is the monument of the Atonement.

1911 J. J. Lanier Church Universal iii. xx. 259 The Protestant Episcopal Church does not say how many sacraments there are in the Christian Church, but teaches that there are two only as generally necessary to salvation—Baptism and the Supper of the Lord.

1952 Life 17 Nov. 107/1 Those whom the minister deemed unfit to receive the Lord's Supper were forbidden to come to the table, and thus were ‘fenced off’ from the worthy.

1995 B. Chilton in J. B. Green Hearing New Test. iii. 52 Whenever exactly Paul understood the bread to have been eaten in relation to other foods, his abstraction of the ‘dominical supper’ from an actual meal by means of his rendering of the Petrine tradition is evident.

2008 G. T. Smith Lord's Supper Introd. 11 What does the Christian and the Christian in community gain from participation in the Lord's Supper?